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Elihu Katz

FELLOW
University of Pennsylvania

Elihu is a professor in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are: communication theory; the diffusion of innovation; media events; leisure and cultural policy.

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Rita Copeland

FELLOW
University of Pennsylvania
Rita is a professor in the Departments of Classical Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are: medieval rhetoric and hermeneutics; medieval literary theory; medieval grammar; medieval literatures; history of literary theory; and history of rhetoric.
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Aharon Geva-Kleinberger

FELLOW
University of Haifa
Aharon is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Haifa.

Research Groups:Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning

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[RG # 147]   Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning

June 1 - August 31, 2016

Organizer:
Dror Hawlena (The Hebrew University)

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Our Research Group aims to develop a general theory that provides novel, mechanistic understandings of the ways in which environmental changes regulate ecosystem processes via alteration of an animal's trophic functions.

We suggest using stress physiology as a common mechanism to scale plasticity in energy and elemental budgets at the individual level to processes occurring at the population, community and ecosystem levels. Trait expressions are shaped by evolution and are constrained by conservative biological processes. Thus, this evolutionary-based framework has much potential to reveal how ecological interactions emerge across levels of biological organization, and may assist in unifying existing, currently separated theories. Such an understanding is also crucial to better predict how human-induced rapid environmental changes will affect life-supporting ecosystem services. 

 

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Roger Scott

FELLOW
University of Melbourne
Roger is a Principal Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are Byzantine Chronicles and the early history of the Byzantine empire.
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Sorin Solomon

FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sorin Solomon is a professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He initiated the European Conferences on Complex Systems series, and the "European PhD Complexity Schools".